Celestial Brunaidh

Household spirits who help people or protect the home.

Bannik: a bathhouse spirit appearing to be older, naked, and small, living in the liminal spaces of the bathhouses. They wear birch leaves left behind by brooms and cleanse the bathhouse, protecting those who use it. They can appear as other people they have seen if they are afraid. They can also hide among the stones or coals heating the bathhouse. The bathhouses in their area are often used for divination or giving birth, and they help with both. They like offerings of black hens buried under their thresholds, fir branches, water, and soap. At the end of the night, they always take the last bath. They favor the polite. They can predict the future if someone waits in the half-opened door of the bathhouse, scratching their back for danger and gently stroking it for good futures. They have strong hands and might hurl hot water or even strangle a foe trying to harm the bathhouse.

Brownie: fairies who do work around the house. Brownies range from 6" to 4' tall. They have brown skin and hairy bodies. They have many charms to help around the house, and there are consequences if they break these rules. They are low-ranking in Faerie.

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Jagaubis

Jana: 3' tall fairies who weave anything you need out of golden looms. They are bringers of good luck and helpers of anyone in need. Their charms are about providing for others.

Nisse , Tomte , or Tonttu : house spirits wearing brimless red caps, grey clothing, short breeches, jackets, and ordinary shoes. Some have only one eye. They mostly appear human, but very small. Many wear beards. They age quickly and have wizened faces at maturity. They do chores around the house, stables, or farm. If they are not rewarded on yuletide with porridge with butter and beer, they will leave the house, and at other times of the year, they expect mittens, shoes, tobacco, wadmal (coarse wool), clods of dirt, and other odd offerings. Many in their culture are called Niels or Nicholas. They often give gifts to random oppressed families around yuletide. They often work on farms, live in mounds, cleared lots to build on, protect homes, grow trees, pull wagons and ploughs magically, play fun games with the family, help with carpentry, help plan sites for towns, help with chores, help breed animals, help with the harvest, restore the souls of the most exploited, help with pets or domesticated animals, fill in for those who have gone on a journey, and otherwise help and oppressed family cope with their unpaid labors. Some rare nisse will be able to turn into a goat, horse, or goose. They may compel those who mistreat them into engaging in dangerous activities, releasing animals into the wild, tripping or falling, giving fairylocks to livestock, sealing into parts of the house or farm, or otherwise exacting revenge. Mistreatment includes eating the offerings meant for them, mocking the work they do, ignoring them, or harming them directly.

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